Keeners at New River Academy Ripin' it up
Ottawa Kayak School youth developement programs based on the shores of the Ottawa River at Wilderness Tours Adventure Resort. www.ottawakayak.com for details on our resort and other programs.
It was a spectular show tonight under the lights for the Men's Semi-Finals. I am pleased to report our Keener Coaches - EJ, Stephen, Nick and Joel all move to finals tomorrow!
Well, this it - crunch time in Thun, Switzerland.
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Hey it's peter i have had a good time at keeners i cant beleve i am leaveing it went by so fast i am so sad bye everyone thankyou for reading my blogs and i hope you have a great long wekend bye...
Well everybody tommrow is my last day here, This summer has been absolutley amazing. I have learned more than i ever thought i could, and had new oppertunites like being an instructor for Ottawa Kayak School. I have made some of the best friends anybody could have ever had Craig Hull, Stephen Forester, James Metcalf, I could just list awesome people all day. This program truely spits out the worlds best freestyle kayakers, and i feel very honored to come out of this program. This program gives you the ability to take your kayaking where ever you can dream it, Craig Hull and I decided to start our own Team " TreeHouseMafia" and this spring im going out to California to do some good boating with Craig and get some awesome footage, that is just one of the examples of how this program helps your kayaking grow and push the limits of this beautiful sport. I would like to thank our awesome keener cordinators Jackie and Sam, nobody could have done half the job they did, they were great to have around! And of course the instructors for giving us the adivce and tips we need to take are boating to the next level. And lastly Joe for having this program, it's the best program in the world. Well im off to start my packing, Thanks!
Thun, Switzerland looks more like Keenerville than it does a medieval town at the foot of the alps. Keeners are everywhere and doing well. Yesterday, Tuesday Sep 1 saw Keener Instructors ripping it up. Led by Nick Troutman's 2,400 point ride and followed by Billy Harris, Head Coach Stephen Wright, Eric Jackson and Joel Kowalski, Keeners did well. All will be competing in the Semi-Finals on Friday.
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Hey its Sean checking in. This week was awesome this morning me and Gaylan made breakfast. it was pretty good i think BLTs should be for breakfast everyday. The water levels have been messed up! its been going down but its impossible to predict. this morning it was 1.5 and by lunch it was 2.5 very strange. It skipped right over baby face (so sad.) i really want to blunt more consistently and maybe flat water loop cartwheels in a hole for sure.
hey its Galen this week we are cooking breakfast and dessert today me and Sean made B.l.T.'s and they were great! At the beginning of this week the level was at five and it dropped to 1 1/2 early this morning and has ben steadily rising all day long. it was nice because we were able to surf garb but you couldent do much on it. my goals for this week are flat water loops and getting more used to the all star because i just mooved up to it from the old star.
hi my name is Peter Semehen i am 14yrs old and i started kayaking last summer and Keeners has helped me alot .every morning we assign two Keeners to make breakfast. Today we had BLT's and they were amazing . The water levels have been changing alot so the river has been changing it is great. BYE
This is Ian reporting in for my second blog as a keener. We kicked of this week great with a full day up at McCoys doing river running a playing on the great play at this level. Yesterday corner wave was prime and all the keeners had a great time surfing it; especially because with such a small group a keeners you never have to worry about not having enough time on the wave.
Hey its Liam here, this week has been really fun this mornings breakfast was awesome we had BLT's they were so good. Also today the water level went down from 3 to 1 we all really wanted garbe to come in I got a long surf on it but it needs to drop still to at least -2. Also Clay has been teaching us a lot of river running skills and we are going to a different river on Thursday so this week should be a lot of fun.
Hi my name is Peter Semehen and i am 14yrs old .This is my second year kayaking and i love it i am from Toronto and i was here for the second session this summer and i loved it so much i came back. I have had a great first week . I hope to have two more great weeks on the ottawa.
This is cameron and ive had a great time here. Some highlights of the last week were Boofs at the lorn with tyler fox and looping in brain douche. I also worked hard at corner wave. a 3 hour session left me with confident blunting and a few air blunts. I hope to be back next summer instructing some teens.
Hey its Liam here, last week was really good I won the race last week. Also we did a lot of river running last week I really enjoyed it we ran dragons tough, oddayes, and we also did the poor over at the Loran. I had to work this weekand I did the guide your own both days and pumped rafts for a number of hours. I am glad that this was my last weekand working and I am looking forward to my last week at keeners corner wave is in so it should be fun.
hey its Galen i am finishing up my first week at keeners right now. this week i learned how to do flat water helix's and i got one loop however i am still very inconsistent on them. i dident paddle for about two weeks before i came here and i am getting the feel back and gaining a lot of river running skills. The highlight of my week was on Friday when I ran dragons toung twice and the secconet time i ran it i got worked in the pourover and in the hole at the bottem and the two back straps of my helmit got ripped off. it was awsum!

This has been a great week on the Ottawa, with all the keeners making a lot of progress in such a short amount of time. At the start of the week several of us learned how to loop when the water was high enough for 7-8 hole to come in.
hey guys its Sean writing again. Due to personal reasons i was forced to take a week off at home but i' am glad to be back. although i miss all the friends i made in the last session i made many new ones. that's a lie i only made 5 new friends but i have 2 returning from last session and 1 returning from last year. that is all of the the keener.

